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Principal Families bearing Fish on their Arms. It was 

 published in 1842, but is now seldom to be met with. 

 In the course of my notes on different fish I shall mention 

 several which have found their way into Heraldry. 



I notice that clergymen are numerous among angling 

 authors, as indeed might be expected of "fishers of 

 men," who are also fishers of fish, and have a taste for 

 handling the pen as well as the rod. The fox-hunting 

 parson is almost a being of the past, though a celebrity 

 or two still linger in the remote West, and the shooting 

 parson is an object of suspicion in these correct times ; 

 but " a little quiet angling " is freely accorded on all 

 sides " to the cloth." I have already mentioned Dr. 

 Gardiner's book of 1606 a.d. The Eev. Phineas Flet- 

 cher, Eector of Hilgay, Norfolk, indulged in piscatory 

 poetry a few years later. Eobert Nobbes, the author of 

 the Complete Trailer in 1682, already alluded to, was 

 Vicar of Apethorp and Wood Newton, in Northampton- 

 shire. The Rev. Moses Browne was another " poet of 

 the angle," 1729, and an editor of Walton and Cotton, 

 1750. Dr. Ford another poet in 1733. The Rev. 

 Charles Marshall, Vicar of Brixworth, added Hints on 

 Fish and Fishponds to his Gardening in 1796. In 

 the Rev. W. B. Daniels 5 Rural Sports, first published 

 in 1802, fishing occupies a considerable space: and as 

 Scott (Dr.), the author of The Anglers, Fight Dialogues in- 

 verse in 1758, was a "Dissenting minister," he also is a 

 " Reverend," according to a recent legal decision. Among 

 the moderns, to mention but one, the Rev. Henry New- 

 land, late Vicar of St. Mary Church, Devon, one of the 

 leaders of the High Church revival of the present century, 

 and a devoted angler, has given us one of the most readable 



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